{"id":10516,"date":"2015-04-06T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:20:20","slug":"march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2015\/04\/06\/march-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Announcements:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">104<sup>th<\/sup> USCAP Meeting, Boston, MA, March 21-27 2015<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cathryn Byrne-Dugan, MD<\/span><\/strong><\/em><em> had her abstract accepted:<strong> \u201c<\/strong><\/em>Podocyte Infolding Glomerulopathy \u2013 Occurrence of the Disease Entity in the United States, and the Potential Role of an Autoantibody;\u201d <strong>Authors:<\/strong>Cathryn J Byrne-Dugan, Pavel Kopach, Laurence H Beck, Vanesa Bijol, Monika Pilichowska, Helmut G Rennke, Masha Bilic<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Meera Mahalingam<\/span><\/strong> will be the Chair\/Moderator of \u201cNeoplastic Dermatopathology \u2013 Clues and Confounders.\u201d Topic was selected to highlight histopathologically confounding issues in cutaneous neoplasms. Neoplasms selected encompass a spectrum of lineage-unrelated tumors that are commonly encountered some perhaps more than others by a general pathologist both in private practice and in an academic setting. Each speaker will begin with an initial description of the entity and conclude with clues and confounding issues relevant to the entity discussed<\/li>\n<li><strong> <\/strong><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Qing Zhao<\/span><\/strong><\/em><em>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shi Yang<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cecilia Ponchiardi<\/span><\/strong>, and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Michael O&#8217;Brien<\/span><\/strong> had their abstract <strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/em><strong>BRAF\/KRAS Mutation, MSI\/MSS Status and Tumor Budding in Colorectal Carcinoma\u201d at the Poster Session on Tuesday, March 24<sup>th<\/sup> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> \u201cResident Shiva Khoobyari,<\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong> MD<\/strong><\/em><em> enjoying a Poster at this year\u2019s USCAP in Boston\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/USCAP2015.Shiva_.58983127-DSC_624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10519\" alt=\"USCAP2015.Shiva.58983127-DSC_624\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/USCAP2015.Shiva_.58983127-DSC_624-450x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/USCAP2015.Shiva_.58983127-DSC_624-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/USCAP2015.Shiva_.58983127-DSC_624-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Karen Quillen<\/span><\/strong> on her recent promotion to full professor. There is a nice article in BU today about her advancement. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/med-promotions\/\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/med-promotions\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daniel Remick, M.D<\/span><\/strong>., has been selected to be a Guest Editor for the Journal of Leukocyte Biology beginning February 2015. Dr. Remick will serve as the Editor for manuscripts solicited from the 2014 joint annual meeting of the Society for Leukocyte Biology and the International Innate Immune and Endotoxin Society.<\/li>\n<li>On March 9<sup>th<\/sup> 2015 in Boston, MA. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Carmen Sarita-Reyes<\/span><\/strong> presented at the 2015 Annual Session and Exhibition of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) a\u00a0Chair of the ADEA Board of Directors Symposium. The presentation was titled: \u201cIGNITING MINDS THROUGH STUDENT SELF-DIRECTED GROUP LEARNING: <em>Integrated \u00a0Problem Sessions (IPS.) <\/em>Chair of the ADEA Board of Directors Symposium;\u201d Cataldo W. Leone, DMD,\u00a0DMSc,\u00a0Carol\u00a0T. Walsh, MA, PhD,\u00a0Carmen D. Sarita-Reyes, MD,\u00a0Monica A.\u00a0Pessina, MEd, PhD, and\u00a0Elizabeth R. Whitney, MSPT, PhD<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Resident Reyhan Gedik, MD <\/span><\/strong>volunteers for a non-profit organization called White Tulip Foundation. We organize monthly seminars (called Boston Medical forum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmedicalforum.org\/\">http:\/\/www.bostonmedicalforum.org\/<\/a> ) to share our experiences as medical doctors and scientists. In March they invited <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> David Kindelberger<\/span><\/strong> to give a talk about \u201cCirculating Tumor Cells; New Tools for Personalized Medicine\u201d and he kindly accepted. Keep an eye out for other interesting topics.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clarissa Koch,<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PhD, Connors Lab<\/span><\/strong>, successfully defended her thesis \u201cCharacterizing the Effect of Transthyretin Amyloid on the Heart\u201d on Monday, March 16<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cClarissa Koch, PhD Candidate and her PI Lawreen Connors, about to give her Defense\u201d and \u201cDr. Koch\u2019s Celebration\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4362.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10522\" alt=\"IMG_4362\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4362-400x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4362-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4362-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10521\" alt=\"IMG_4380\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4380-400x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4380-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2015\/04\/IMG_4380-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MATCH DAY 2015:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bravo to MD\/PhD Graduate David Stepien<\/span><\/strong> for successfully being accepted into his First Choice in this year\u2019s Match; Dave will be taking up residence in the University of Michigan Hospital Integrated Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hooray to 2011 Masters Degree Graduate Nik Bajaj<\/span><\/strong> for also getting into his First Choice in this year\u2019s Match; Nik will begin his residency in the University of Illinois \u2013 COM \u2013 Chicago Neurology Residency Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kevin Chandler, PhD<\/span><\/strong>, a postdoctoral fellow working jointly in the Dr. Cathy Costello and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Nader Rahimi<\/span><\/strong> laboratories was awarded a three year postdoctoral fellowship from the NIH. The goal of the project is to map the glycosylation of VEGFR-2 and the role of this posttranslational modification in the angiogenic signaling of VEGFR-2<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> David Sherr\u2019s graduate student, Liz Stanford<\/span><\/strong>, was selected to be the GMS commencement student speaker<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD<\/span><\/strong> is an invited speaker in March 2015 for:\n<ul>\n<li>Experimental Biology, Diet and Immunometabolism Symposium, Boston, MA, Lymphocyte function in human type 2 diabetes, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Immunology Microbiology Program Spring Seminar Series, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Inflammation in human type 2 diabetes, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Beth Israel Medical Center,\u00a0 Inflammation in human type 2 diabetes, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Carol Cohen<\/span><\/strong> will be presenting at the AATB Quality and Donor Suitability Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia on April 20<sup>th<\/sup>. Susan Sharpe MS, MT(ASCP), SBB, CTBS who is the Supervisor of the Tissue and Transfusion Service at Northside Hospital in Atlanta and Carol will be presenting on the FDA\u2019s new ruling that requires medical devices to have unique device identifiers<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lawreen Connors, PhD<\/span><\/strong> was invited to speak at the EB\/ASIP meeting here in Boston on March 31st; the title of her presentation was &#8220;The Translational Science of Transthyretin-associated Cardiomyopathies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s a link to an article in the Chicago Tribune in which <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> David Sherr<\/span><\/strong> is quoted\/featured: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/sc-hlth-401-environmental-cancer-20150326-story.html#page=1\">http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/sc-hlth-401-environmental-cancer-20150326-story.html#page=1<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Remick was recently notified that graduate student, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ms. Erika Langley<\/span><\/strong>, was chosen this semester as a <em>Teaching as Research Fellow. <\/em>As a winner of this fellowship, she will receive an award of $1,000 and partake in a seminar in teaching as research. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirtl.net\/CoreIdeas\/teaching_as_research\">Teaching-as-Research<\/a> involves the deliberate, systematic, and reflective use of research methods to develop and implement teaching practices that advance the learning experiences and outcomes of students and teachers. Erika will be in the TAR seminar this spring, and implement a project in a classroom in the summer or fall. Erika\u2019s TAR project has the working title: <em>Improving scientific literacy in undergraduates; <\/em>she has the support of her faculty advisor for the project Prof. Paul Lipton and her research advisor Prof. Alpaslan Dedeoglu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications ACCEPTED<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goldberg, L.J., E. Wise, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">N. S. Miller<\/span><\/strong>. White piedra in a northern climate caused by Trichosporon inkin: A report of two cases. Item of correspondence. <em>Accepted for publication, March 7, 2015. <\/em><em>British Journal of Dermatology<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chad L Mayer<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Caitlin S.L. Parello<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Benjamin C Lee<\/span><\/strong>, Kiyoshi Itagaki, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shinichiro Kurosawa<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">DJ Stearns-Kurosawa<\/span><\/strong>. \u201cPro-Coagulant Endothelial Dysfunction Results from EHEC Shiga toxins and Host Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns\u201d\u00a0 <em>Frontiers in Immunology<\/em>, <em>section Microbial Immunology. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications PUBLISHED<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tagne, J.B., Mohtar, O.R., Campbell, J.D., Lakshminarayanan, M., Huang, J., Hinds, A.C., Lu, J., <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ramirez, M.I<\/span>.<\/strong> (2015) Transcription factor and microRNA interactions in lung cells: an inhibitory link between NK2 homeobox 1, miR-200c and the developmental and oncogenic factors Nfib and Myb <em> Res. 16:22 PMC4335692<\/em> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/respiratory-research.com\/content\/16\/1\/22\">http:\/\/respiratory-research.com\/content\/16\/1\/22<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rai A, Nimeh T, Sood A, Thirumavalavan N, Thurmond PE, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Azadzoi<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <strong>KM<\/strong><\/span>, Lerner LB. Could nocturia be an indicator of an undiagnosed sleep disorder in male veterans? <em> 2015 Mar;85(3):641-7. PMID: 25733279<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lei X, Liu C, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Azadzoi<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <strong>KM<\/strong><\/span>, Li C, Lu F, Xiang A, Sun J, Guo Y, Zhao Q, Yan Z, Yang J,; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25592840\">A novel IgM-H-ficolin complement pathway to attack allogenic cancer cells in vitro.<\/a> <em>Sci Rep. 2015 Jan 16;5:7824. PMID: 25592840<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Poutahidis, T., <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Varian, B. J<\/span><\/strong>., Levkovich, T., Lakritz, J. R., Mirabal, S., Kwok, C., &amp; Erdman, S. E. (2015). Dietary microbes modulate transgenerational cancer risk.\u00a0<em>Cancer research<\/em><em>, canres-2732\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>(BJ Varian is one of our Masters Students; this is with his MIT affiliation)<\/li>\n<li><span> <\/span>Shivanna S, Harrold I, Shashar M, Meyer R, Kiang C, Francis J, Zhao Q, Feng H, Edelman ER, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rahimi N<\/span><\/strong>, Chitalia VC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25784557\">c-Cbl regulates nuclear \u03b2-catenin and angiogenesis through its Wnt-mediated phosphorylation.<\/a><span> <em>J Biol Chem<\/em><\/span><em>. 2015 Mar 17<span>J Biol Chem<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Melody P. Lun<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0Matthew B. Johnson,\u00a0Kevin G. Broadbelt,\u00a0Momoko Watanabe, Young-jin Kang, Kevin F. Chau,Mark W. Springel, Alexandra Malesz, Andr\u00e9 M.M. Sousa, Mihovil Pletikos, Tais Adelita, Monica L. Calicchio,Yong Zhang, Michael J. Holtzman, Hart G.W. Lidov, Nenad Sestan, Hanno Steen, Edwin S. Monuki, and Maria K. Lehtinen.\u00a0Spatially Heterogeneous Choroid Plexus Transcriptomes Encode Positional Identity and Contribute to Regional CSF Production. <em>The\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience\u00a0<\/em>25 <em>March 2015, 35(12): 4903-4916<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Vanesa Bijol, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cathryn J. Byrne-Dugan<\/span><\/strong><sup>, <\/sup>and Melanie P. Hoenig<sup>. <\/sup><\/em>Medical student web-based formative assessment tool for renal pathology. <em>Medical Education Online, Volume 20, 2015<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/med-ed-online.net\/index.php\/meo\/article\/view\/26765\">http:\/\/med-ed-online.net\/index.php\/meo\/article\/view\/26765<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: 104th USCAP Meeting, Boston, MA, March 21-27 2015 Cathryn Byrne-Dugan, MD had her abstract accepted: \u201cPodocyte Infolding Glomerulopathy \u2013 Occurrence of the Disease Entity in the United States, and the Potential Role of an Autoantibody;\u201d Authors:Cathryn J Byrne-Dugan, Pavel Kopach, Laurence H Beck, Vanesa Bijol, Monika Pilichowska, Helmut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10530,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}